He looked up at the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three ¹  eunuchs looked down at him.

His servants conspired against him ¹  and murdered Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla. ² 

When he had secured control of the kingdom, ¹  he executed the servants who had assassinated his father. ² 

When he had secured control of the kingdom, ¹  he executed the servants who had assassinated his father. ² 

Then the servants of the king who were at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why are you violating the king’s commandment?”

But he went no further than the king’s gate, for no one was permitted to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Then Mordecai again sat at the king’s gate, while Haman hurried away to his home, mournful and with a veil over his head.

I will walk in ¹  the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace. ² 

Deceitful people will not live in my palace. ¹  Liars will not be welcome in my presence. ² 

If she is a wall, ¹  we will build on her a battlement ²  of silver; but if she is a door, we will barricade ³  her with boards ⁴  of cedar. ⁵ 

Your splendor ¹  has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. ²  You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you. ³ 

They ¹  removed the defenses ²  of Judah. At that time ³  you looked for the weapons in the House of the Forest. ⁴ 

But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,’ says the Lord. ¹  ‘I will set fire to your palace; it will burn up everything around it.’” ² 

He sent it after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the palace officials, ¹  the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had been exiled from Jerusalem. ² 

I will punish the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, ¹  the priests, and all the other people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf. ² 

Since it was the ninth month of the year, the king was sitting in his winter quarters. ¹  A fire was burning in the firepot in front of him. ² 

When the time appointed by the king arrived, ¹  the overseer of the court officials brought them into Nebuchadnezzar’s presence.

Don’t prophesy at Bethel ¹  any longer, for a royal temple and palace are here!” ² 

But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest’s courtyard. After ¹  going in, he sat with the guards ²  to see the outcome.